Part road movie, part nature documentary, Unfettering the Falcons questions the false gender identity of the Atlanta Falcons football team via identical twin bird of prey experts who spark a quirky courtship between an American Kestrel (falcon) and a has-been 1991 Toyota Tercel (the "falcon" is a female bird a third stronger and larger than its male counterpart, the "tercel").  

documentary

Unfettering the Falcons
[the possibility of a performance enhancing makeover]
2007

produced, directed, edited by Niklas Sven Vollmer and Laura Kissel

DV Cam, TRT: 8:00

screenings:

EarthVision Environmental Film Festival
Santa Cruz, CA March 4, 2008

Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Missoula, MT Feb. 14-20, 2008

NW Film Forum
Seattle, WA January 14, 2008

2007 IDC Showcase, sponsored by SILVERDOCS at the
AFI Silver Theater, Silver Springs, MD   October 9, 2007

DokuFest Kosovo, Yugoslavia   August 2007

Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada   April 28, 2007  
IDC Original Vision Award  and Best Sports Documentary

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other honors:

Semi-Finalist 2007 ACE / SILVERDOCS Documentary Grant -(Top 10 out of 100 grant)